Tapland ’s Scott Raulinaitis takes me to task for my loose scientific discipline method acting on yesterday ’s Google Buzz Index , and makes one good item that I agree with , and another that I do n’t . My response after the start .
He argues that it would have been better to search for just “ Tapwave ” rather of “ Tapwave Zodiac ” ( no citation in the Google query ) . Since the only Tapwave product is the Zodiac , that seems fair to me , and bumps the Zodiac ’s results from 84k to 185k .
What he ’s missing , though , is the effect that quoted inquiry have on Google , specifically with the Nintendo DS . While I would have made the same assumption about the results he did ( that the interrogation would return results that include just ‘ nintendo ’ or just ‘ ds ’ as well as both ) , if you checkthe last pageof the hunt , you ’ll find even the last entry still has both hunt term render , still as ‘ Nintendo DS . ’ While in general , Google would have pass any page that had both ‘ Nintendo ’ and ‘ calciferol ’ on there somewhere , in this instance it revert only relevant item ( or at least as far as I know . I only see the start of the hunting and the end ) .
Anyway , not a huge passel , but while I make no bones about the Google Buzz Index being light scientific discipline , I do make an endeavour to be as sightly about it as possible . Sometimes that means using quotes around search inquiry and sometimes it does n’t — it just depends on the item .
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